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Security consultant, Professor Kwesi Anning, has strongly criticized the Burkina Faso President, Ibrahim Traoré, for carrying a pistol visibly tucked to his side during President John Dramani Mahama’s inauguration ceremony in Accra. In an interview on Morning Starr with Naa Dedei Tettey, Professor Anning described the incident as a significant breach of diplomatic protocol and […]
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Some foods just pair best with an ice-cold soda (we're looking at you, pizza), but that doesn’t mean the sugar-sweetened beverage should be enjoyed regularly. The same goes for energy drinks, aguas frescas, artificial fruit drinks, and lemonade, all of which have a high sugar content that can result in serious health effects, including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. And now, researchers are shedding light on the harmful—and potentially fatal—consequences or "burdens" of sugar-sweetened beverages.
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A new study published in the journal Nature Medicine found that sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), such as soda and lemonade, were globally responsible for 2.2 million new type 2 diabetes cases and 1.2 million new cardiovascular disease cases in 2020. Furthermore, the authors estimate that 340,000 people died in 2020 from sugary drink-related diabetes and heart disease.
"This is a public health crisis, requiring urgent action," lead author Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, cardiologist and director of Tufts University’s Food is Medicine Institute, told CNN. "It’s time to pay attention to, and take priority actions to deal with, this tragic preventable suffering."
Researchers analyzed 30 years’ worth of data from the Global Dietary Database, including 450 surveys on sugar-sweetened beverages. For their study, sugar-sweetened beverages were defined "as any beverage with added sugars and more than 50 kcal per 8-ounce serving." This included soda, energy drinks, fruit drinks, punch, lemonade, and aguas frescas; it didn’t include 100 percent fruit and vegetable juices, noncaloric artificially sweetened drinks, and sweetened milk.
Because they sought to compare health risk analysis by nation, representation was imperative to the study’s success. Nearly 3 million individuals from 118 countries were represented in those surveys. Geography aside, the authors also compared sugar-sweetened attributable health issues by age, sex, education status, and urbanicity.
So, what did they conclude? Sugary drink-related burdens (i.e., diabetes and heart disease) were higher among men than women, higher among younger versus older adults, and higher among those with higher education. By region, Latin America, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa ranked in the top three.
Heavy consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages can result in type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, the study says.
"Due to their liquid form, SSBs are rapidly consumed and digested, resulting in lower satiety, higher caloric intake and weight gain. High doses of rapidly digested glucose also activate insulin and other regulatory pathways, which can result in visceral fat production, hepatic and skeletal muscle insulin resistance and weight gain," explain the authors.
Cardiovascular disease can cause heart attack, stroke, heart failure, cardiac arrest, and arrhythmias. When these health issues are ignored or exacerbated, death may occur. Similarly, type 2 diabetes can prompt other heart conditions, including heart disease.
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Limiting your consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages can lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. If you’re a daily soda drinker, try upping your water intake and switching to a low-calorie sweetener. However, alternative sweeteners should be used as a means to quit, not a crutch.
"Growing research shows that both natural and artificial low-calorie sweeteners are not innocuous and may cause health harms, so these should be considered a short-term, less harmful alternative, not a long-term solution," Mozaffarian told CNN.
The Buffalo Bills look like one of the most dominant teams in the NFL heading into the playoffs. Buffalo finished the 2024 season with a 13-4 record and won the AFC East division. The Bills will be getting some reinforcements back ahead of their next game against the Broncos. Bills WR Amari Cooper returned to […]
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DARTS hero Glen Durrant “hopes and prays” former rival Chris Dobey doesn’t win the Premier League.
The pair battled on the oche many times, with their most high-profile meeting taking place at the 2020 World Darts Championship when Durrant, 54, knocked Dobey, 34, out in the fourth round.
Duzza stepped away from professional darts in 2022 and has since worked as a pundit for Sky Sports.
Dobey, on the other hand, enjoyed an impressive World Darts Championship campaign as he made it all the way to the semi-finals
The Bedlington thrower was eliminated by eventual runner-up Michael van Gerwen but his stunning displays earned him a place in the Premier League of Darts.
Durrant congratulated Dobey but his praise was followed by a tongue in cheek post on social media.
The veteran jokingly stated he will be rooting against his former foe next month.
Durrant posted: “So happy for @Dobey180….. I just hope and pray he doesn’t win it though !!”
But this was just innocent banter as Durrant and Dobey are actually good friends away from darts.
The Middlesbrough fan was probably just adding fuel to their North East rivalry, with Dobey a Newcastle supporter.
Durrant said six years ago: “Chris is just the nicest man in the world and it would be great to have Middlesbrough vs Newcastle.
“To play Chris – he’s up there with Steve Beaton and Dave Chisnall. He’s just the nicest guy – nobody has a bad word to say about him.”
Dobey will be joined by other darts stars in the Prem, such as Luke Humphries, Michael van Gerwen, Nathan Aspinall, Rob Cross, Gerwyn Price and Stephen Bunting.
He will also be going up against Luke Littler after he became the youngest ever world champion at the age of 17.